The Scattered Ones

[Hollowtree]

Work's getting a bit busy at the moment.

Briallen, have you deactivated email notification? I just checked
the forum to make sure nothing terrible had happened - it seemed
like people stopped posting on 9/4/03 and that was that.

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Has anyone checked the kitchen where the imp and the
were-rat came from in the first place?

It's still blank on the map.

Tomas, ever on the lookout for a tasty morsel, descends the stairs, takes a lantern out of his pack, lights it, and prepares to enter the room, rapier drawn...

 

[Amaryllis]

Hollowtree, that's exactly the room Amaryllis is currently looking in (why am I starting to get the feeling that my posts are invisible). Also, how do you know its a kitchen?

 

[Morbidity]

Tomas to my knowledge I have done nothing with email notification. Such wonders of modern technology are beyond my reckoning.

... ponders Amaryllis' invisible text feat, before deciding it has serious drawbacks. Probably one of the things which will be fixed in 3.5.

The room to the east is in fact a kitchen (Namfoodle had a brief peek earlier before being stung by Mr Imp). There are various pots and pans and a stove. The room to the south of it is a pantry … contains various dried meats, grains, spices and other cooking stuffs.

 

[Amaryllis]

Amaryllis makes the following suggestion to the group (either together or in subgroups, depending on where everyone is):

"We should search the entire building before entering the crawlways, we don't want to be attacked from behind while we are in there."

She then makes the following suggestion to each relevant person:

Neblin - stands guard at the front door (unless Neblin is around, this is probably a simple thing for the DM to manage as an NPC)
Seebor - being invisible, should scout out unexplored areas - eg downstairs (he presumably won't fit in the crawlway anyway).
Mouse and Namfoodle (after finishing with the potions) - stand guard at either entrance to the crawlway, so that we can alert the others if the imp is in there and leaves (while also searching through the surrounding rooms).
Tomas and Amaryllis - search the ground floor and top two floors for anything we have missed (including inside all barrels etc).

The plan, she explains to the others, would be to make two of the smaller members of the group (including herself) invisible and enter the crawlway from either end, but only after we are certain there are no further surprises.

If the others agree to her suggestion (or something effectively similar), Amaryllis will leave the ground floor (with the attractive kitchen) to Tomas, while searching the upstairs floor

[ROLLS: Mouse spot check = 5+1=6; Mouse hide check (he will try to remain unseen) = 6+18=24; Amaryllis search check for upstairs = 11+2=13]

[OOC - sorry to "take control" guys, but I thought it might help move things along]

 

[dorin]

Seebor says:

"Can someone hold a light source and follow me down the stairs? - I'll be 10 feet in front of you."

If someone is willing to descend the stairs behind him with a light source then Seebor goes down to the lower level.

He first examines the coloured stair and checks for traps:

[search 14+7 = 21]

 

[Amaryllis]

Amaryllis casts dancing lights and instructs them to follow Seebor down the stairs but not to venture more than 150 feet from her. She also suggests that she and Tomas switch levels (I am assuming that the bottom floor is less than (say) 10 feet below the top floor).

 

[dorin]

After Amaryllis casts dancing lights, Seebor proceeds as described above.

 

[Morbidity]

Amaryllis casts dancing lights and instructs them to follow Seebor down the stairs but not to venture more than 150 feet from her. She also suggests that she and Tomas switch levels (I am assuming that the bottom floor is less than (say) 10 feet below the top floor).

This would be rather like lighting a lamp and asking the lamp to follow someone. Dancing lights are not sentient, if you want them to move you will have to actually move them, so if you want them to follow Seebor down the stairs you will have to be able to see Seebor and move them so they are continually 10 feet behind him.

 

[Amaryllis]

Sorry, I didn't realise that was how they worked. Can I move them in a sweep downstairs - that is can I make them stay 10 feet below me and move back and forth or do I actually need to see them?

 

[Morbidity]

Okay, I'm going to say that you can state geographically where they will be going, however if you can't see them, they may end up being in walls and thus provide no light.

OOC: Off to GENCON UK on Friday. Looking forward to it. Hopefully it will be fun. Everyone have a great chocolate eating festival which apparently has some sort of religious significance.